Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After pondering Harvard's offer for two years, a visiting specialist in medieval literature said yesterday that he has decided to accept a permanent post in the English Department...
...junior-high English teacher always told me not to end a sentence in a proposition, but in this case I feel compelled--rich folk, how about spending your money on something slightly less self-aggrandizing like a blimp that flies above the yard with your family's last name spelled out in bright red neon letters...
...dozen ports in France, Belgium and Holland. The vessels have sometimes been criticized by safety experts, who say that the open holding bays for cars and trucks make the ships very unstable if they are flooded. Before the Herald disaster, there had been six ferry accidents in the English Channel region in the past five years, causing ten deaths. But British Shipping Minister Lord Brabazon insisted that the "ferries have a very good safety record. There are more than 200 crossings every day with very, very few accidents." Cold comfort indeed for those aboard the doomed Herald...
...There could be more clothes in it," frets Danish-born Fashion Entrepreneur Peder Bertelsen, who backs Hamnett's retail enterprises on the designer's home turf. "Katharine's very exciting to work with," he adds. "She shouts at me and calls me names I can't find in the English dictionary...
...build a "serviglesia," a church to serve the poor; another twelve headed for Appalachia's "Valley of Despair" to plant fir trees and work on construction and furniture-building projects. Says Vanderbilt Senior Ethel Johnson, 21, who stayed in Nashville with another team sowing gardens, making curtains and teaching English in a community of Cambodian refugees: "Students are vastly underestimated. They have a real desire to get out there and do something to try to help and to have their eyes opened...